Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider / / James A. Diamond
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| Autore: |
Diamond James Arthur
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| Titolo: |
Converts, heretics, and lepers : Maimonides and the outsider / / James A. Diamond
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| Pubblicazione: | Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 296.1/81 |
| Soggetto topico: | Other (Philosophy) |
| God (Judaism) | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The convert (ger): metaphor of Jewishness -- The leper: illness as contemplative metaphor -- Elisha ben Abuyah and the hubris of the heretic -- The king: the ethics of imperial humility -- The sage/philosopher: a solitude of universalism -- God, the supreme outsider: indwelling (shekhinah) as metaphor for outdwelling -- Deconstructing God's indwelling: the challenge to Halevi -- Sabbath: the temporal outsider. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Diamond's alternative reading of central topics in Maimonides suggests that literary appreciation is a key to deciphering Maimonides' writings in particular and Jewish exegetical texts in general. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Converts, heretics, and lepers |
| ISBN: | 9780268077662 |
| 0268077665 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910956952503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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